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Language
Supyire
sùpyìré
Native to
Mali, Ivory Coast
Region
Sikasso Region
Native speakers
(460,000 cited 1996–2007)[1]
Language family
Niger–Congo?
Atlantic–Congo
Senufo
Suppire–Mamara
Supyire
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Either: spp – Supyire seb – Shempire (Syenpire, duplicate code of Supyire or of Cebaara)
Glottolog
supy1237
Map showing where Supyire is spoken.
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Supyire, or Suppire, is a Senufo language spoken in the Sikasso Region of southeastern Mali and in adjoining regions of Ivory Coast. In their native language, the noun sùpyìré means both "the people" and "the language spoken by the people".
^Supyire at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required) Shempire (Syenpire, duplicate code of Supyire or of Cebaara) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Supyire, or Suppire, is a Senufo language spoken in the Sikasso Region of southeastern Mali and in adjoining regions of Ivory Coast. In their native language...
neighbour of the Supyirelanguage, spoken in southeastern Mali. Sucite is sometimes regarded as the northern extension of the Supyirelanguage. The two dialects...
Senufo language spoken by about 750,000 people in southeastern Mali. It is closely related to Supyire. Minyanka is one of the national languages of Mali...
system closely resembles that of other Senufo languages. It is like the two Northern Senufo languagesSupyire and Mamara in having only five nasal against...
people. The languages spoken there reflect ancient settlement patterns, migrations, and its long history. Ethnologue counts more than 80 languages. Of these...
a Gur language of Burkina Faso. A Latin script orthography with 29 letters (including extended characters) and three diacritics (the language has four...
of Supyire spoken in Mali. The team problem presented extracts from Chester S. Street's dictionary of Murrin-patha, an Australian Aboriginal language spoken...
of the Dagaare language are also found in Cameroon. The Samu languages of Burkina Faso are Gur languages. Like most Niger–Congo languages, the ancestor...
(1976), p. ?. Kleine (2003), p. 263. Carlson, Robert (1994). A Grammar of Supyire. Walter de Gruyter. Collins, Beverley; Mees, Inger M. (2003) [First published...
spelt Supyire) in Mali, as well as Karaboro in Burkina Faso. Within each group, numerous subdivisions use their own names for the people and language; the...
linguistic names. Language portal Constructed language and List of constructed languagesLanguage (for information about language in general) Language observatory...
as using nominal TAM. Various languages have been shown to have clausal nominal TAM. In the Niger-Congo languageSupyire, the form of the first person...
from a mix of Latin and Greek, in some cases including roots from both languages within a single name. There have been some proposals for standardisation...
Burkina Faso. Sikasso's ethnic groups include the Senufo Bamana,(mainly the Supyire), the Bobo (or Bobo Fing, lit. 'black Bobo'), and the Minianka (Mamara...
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